After their five-wicket win over Supernovas in the tournament-opener on Tuesday, a victory over Velocity would have sealed Trailblazers' place in Saturday's summit clash.
Smriti Mandhana, vice-captain of the Indian women’s cricket team, feels that women in cricket have recently garnered the right kind of attention. Leading Trailblazers, one of the three teams in the Womens T20 League, the 22-year-old ace batswoman asserts that the only thing that defines her on the field is her performance and not her gender.
Smriti Mandhana led from the front and scored 90 off 67 balls as Trailblazers beat Supernovas by two runs.
The tournament which was an unofficial, 13-a side encounter last year, is now an official domestic T20 series.
Four matches will be played among the three teams at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium with Supernovas taking on Trailblazers in the tournament opener.
While WV Raman will coach the Supernovas, Biju George and Mamta Maben have been named as the coaches of Trailblazers and Velocity teams respectively.
The port city of Visakhapatnam will host two play-off matches in the ongoing IPL 2019 on May 8 and 10, the Andhra Cricket Association informed in a press release here Tuesday.
The Harmanpreet Kaur-led Supernovas beat Smriti Mandhana’s Trailblazers by 3 wickets to win the Women’s T20 Challenge at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.